Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

*I* do - 24 bit as much as possible - but some people I work for don't. 
A conference recording company president's eyebrows hit the ceiling 
when I said that his compact Marantz MP3s had to be decoded and 
re-encoded to edit tops and tails! He had no idea... This is the same 
guy with whom I had arguments on the merits of Dolby B back in the 80s 
- but he only works with mono speech, and when one is dependent on 
hotel patch feeds I have to ask, what quality?

I was blown away when I saw them using stereo MP3 recorders to do two 
different rooms at once - of course it works, except for the one room 
where his stereo backup made crosstalk on my 16 bit masters! Glad I 
don't do that often.

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Sep 3, 2006, at 10:00 AM, seva wrote:

> i believe none edit native mp3 format. it has to go back to linear PCM 
> (be de-coded), edited, then *re-encoded*.
>
> you'd be better to work at 16/44 linear PCM  at all times...